☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️

Ideally what happens now is Iran has a genuinely free and fair election, Iranians choose someone Trump hates, and Trump immediately declares that the election was rigged

it's actually not that expensive if you find the right Whole Foods

I am a cannibal with strong moral convictions, so I only eat free range organic humanely-raised people

you will never rise very far in the world with this kind of bad manners

No one in the foreign policy blob ever believed Iraq would attack the US with WMD. But they did have a rational concern, which was an Iraq with WMD could deter the US & Israel from *attacking them* whenever we wanted. As Marco Rubio just explained that's also our worry with Iran:

On the evening of 9/11, Netanyahu mused to the NYT about whether Americans would blame Israel for what happened. (Netanyahu well knew US support motivated al Qaeda.) You have to wonder how concerned he is now.

The NYT didn't print this, tho — the reporter revealed it 10 years later.

you go to war with the angry trump donors you have, not the ones you want

Trump donor told police she feared for safety due to Corey Lewandowski Super PAC donor Trashelle Odom has told cops former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told her he has killed people, according to police report obtained by DailyMail.com.

You might have thought that during Kristi Noem's time as head of Homeland Security it would have come up that her boyfriend and employee Corey Lewandowski brags about having murdered two guys dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I grew up in the affluent suburbs of Washington, D.C., which made me instinctively hate and fear the people who run America. Decades later, I have to say my instincts were right on the money.

YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke

This John Mulaney "horse loose in the hospital" bit about Trump from 2018 was very popular, especially among other comedians, but it made me unhappy then and even more unhappy now. Ah ha ha ha, also the horse just murdered 100+ schoolchildren. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZ...

YouTube video by ParticleMen They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm (Official Audio)

I love the song "Dr. Worm" by They Might Be Giants because the first line is 🎵 They call me Dr. Worm 🎵 and then over the rest of the song you learn how, despite his yearning for everyone to call him Dr. Worm, no one actually does www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxX...

A Brookings Institution guy & former US diplomat describes meeting Ayatollah Khamenei, and explains how Khamenei simply didn't understand the United States. For example, he was so paranoid he thought America was out to get him. Thank god we killed him. brookings.edu/articles/the...

Rest in peace Dan Simmons, an extraordinarily gifted horror writer. Also he went insane after 9/11 and wrote diatribes calling for the killing of all Muslims because otherwise we'd all be reduced to dhimmitude by 2020. irfi.org/articles2/ar...

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no matter how bad much of the internet gets, that will always be outweighed by how it lets us see Sarah McCreanor dance around imitating a bird www.instagram.com/p/DVeHdwFjEG...

it's a huge drag. sometimes he seems to come to his senses and then just as quickly loses it again.

amazing and distressing that Cleese is thoughtlessly imbibing this standard right-wing crankery

If you haven't done it already, it's well worth reading all of this October 2024 exchange between Cenk Uygur & Stephen Miller. Thx to Cenk U. for presciently focusing on reality when the entire corporate media refused to do so on principle.

oh no

But has it made Meghan ultra-wealthy? Case closed.

Meghan McCain's family has a net worth of $100 million thanks to the legalization of alcohol

It's amazing that Bari Weiss was enough of a hateful liar to say this in the first place, and more amazing still that two and a half years later she hasn't deleted it. It tells you a lot about America that someone like this would ever get to run CBS News:

Eight Times the U.S. Has Betrayed the Kurds Nothing in this world is certain except death, taxes, and America betraying the Kurds.

If Trump arms the Kurds to try to create a civil war in Iran, we can be sure what will happen next: Turkey or Iraq or Syria will get mad about it & we'll let the Kurds get slaughtered. This exact scenario has played out at least eight times in the past 100 years: theintercept.com/2019/10/07/k...

Calvin University has a useful archive of Nazi propaganda. It's full of ranting like this from the billionaire founder of Zynga, about how Germany and its allies are the only countries fighting to defend an ungrateful civilization:

From American Indians to enslaved Africans to Koreans to Vietnamese to Iraqis, the US has a 300-year long lucky streak of killing people who turn out not to mind being killed: tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/...

Thanks to @dkthomp.bsky.social for pointing out that our lucky streak continues in Iran!

Yes, Trump is doing his best to start another catastrophic forever war in the mideast. But I still support him for his other policies, like the massive cuts to cancer research.

In 2008 Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in the Democratic primary, and became president, for one reason: they'd supported the Iraq War, and he opposed it. I wonder if any 2028 Democratic hopefuls remember this.

Americans have a choice: You can vote for Republican presidents, who start giant catastrophic wars in the mideast, or you can vote for Democratic presidents, like Clinton with Iraq and Biden with Iran, who set the table for Republican presidents to start giant catastrophic wars in the mideast

Authoritarian regimes are often undermined by low human capital among the people willing to work for them